Future
['fjuːtʃə] or ['fjʊtʃɚ]
Definition
(noun.) bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date.
(noun.) a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future.
(noun.) the time yet to come.
(adj.) yet to be or coming; 'some future historian will evaluate him' .
(adj.) effective in or looking toward the future; 'he was preparing for future employment opportunities' .
(adj.) a verb tense or other formation referring to events or states that have not yet happened; 'future auxiliary' .
(adj.) (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving; 'our next president' .
Checker: Velma--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any time after the present; as, the next moment is future, to the present.
(a.) Time to come; time subsequent to the present (as, the future shall be as the present); collectively, events that are to happen in time to come.
(a.) The possibilities of the future; -- used especially of prospective success or advancement; as, he had great future before him.
(a.) A future tense.
Checker: Terrance
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Futurity, time to come.
a. [1]. Coming, to come, yet to be, that will be.[2]. (Gram.) Denoting futurity.
Typed by Ethan
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Forthcoming, coming, advenient
ANT:Gone, bygone, past
Checker: Melanie
Definition
adj. about to be: that is to come: (gram.) expressing what will be.—n. time to come.—n. Fut′ure-per′fect (gram.) a tense expressing action viewed as past in reference to an assumed future time (L. amavero=I shall have loved).—v.i. Fut′urise to form the future tense.—ns. Fut′urist one whose chief interests are in what is to come; Futurition (-ish′un) future existence: accomplishment; Futur′ity time to come: an event or state of being yet to come.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of the future, is a prognostic of careful reckoning and avoiding of detrimental extravagance.
Checker: Shari
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Typist: Miranda
Examples
- But here there was nothing to be shifted off in a wild speculation on the future. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Can you speak of the future as if you were certain of it? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- A cocoanut shell always has a soft spot at one end because this is the provision nature has made to allow the embryo of the future tree to push its way out of the hard shell. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- She masked her hatred of her husband under the cloak of a mother's solicitude for her son's future. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Your army will cheerfully suffer many privations to break up Hood's army and render it useless for future operations. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- So that the progress of future inventions depends on the outcome of the great economic, industrial, and social battles which are now looming on the pathway of the future. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Arise, my liegemen, and be good subjects in future. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Her mind, disposition, opinions, and habits wanted no half-concealment, no self-deception on the present, no reliance on future improvement. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The terms were severe, but they left it possible for her to hope for an honourable future. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The swiftness with which the papers displaced the gruesome details of the little girl's death by exultation over the business future of the city was a caution. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I cannot precisely define what they expected, but it was something pleasant: not perhaps that day or that month, but at an indefinite future period. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- But come, I will lift a portion of the veil, and place you in possession of facts which may be of use to you in the future. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I didn't have much faith that it would work, expecting that I might possibly hear a word or so that would give hope of a future for the idea. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I shall counsel her to tell her future husband the whole story and to trust to his generosity. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- From the angle of statecraft the future of the movement may be said to depend upon the wise use of this raw and scattered power. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I have long been wanting, Thomasin, he began, to say something about a matter that concerns both our futures. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Editor: Moore